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| The Odd Couple have a falling out. |
Dr. No: East, West, just points of the compass, each as stupid as the spoiler.
Stationed in Jamaica, John Strangways of British Intelligence keeps a watchful eye on the lands making mineral and geological surveys awaiting their results when he is mysteriously killed and his body removed as if he was never there. Miles away in a casino a lengthy game of Baccarat is coming to a conclusion as James Bond (Sean Connery of An Age of Kings, Marnie, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, Shalako, The Anderson Tapes and Highlander) wins the hand and Miss Sylvia Trench's (Eunice Gayson of Count of Twelve, The Last Man to Hang, The Ship Was Loaded, The Revenge of Frankenstein and From Russia with Love) affections. He is called away from the table to answer a call from his employment Universal Exports (a cover for British Intelligence MI-6 division) and is whisked away to headquarters to his superior M (Benard Lee of the River House Mystery, Rhodes, Murder in the Night, To Hell with Hitler, Fortune in Diamonds, Beat the Devil and Thunderball) who informs him the Americans are conducting rocket launches from Cape Canaveral but someone or some thing jamming radio transmissions causing disruptions and as always the Americans assume the Russians are at it but M wants Bond to find the culprit behind this and stop it.
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| 10 to 1 no one was looking at their cards too well. |
Bond is required to work with the CIA in a joint-effort to end this plot before it leads to a world-wide incident. Bond flies out to Jamaica to follow up on Strangways' notes, discover if he is been removed from the picture and to complete the mission. Finding the fisherman in Strangways' photos, Quarrel (John Kitzmiller of Variety Lights, Valley of Peace, Night of the Vampires and Uncle Tom's Cabin) Bond is snagged out of view where Quarrel and some of his buddies jumps him only to get their collective butts handed to them and he hears a gun cocked aimed at him by Felix Leiter (Jack Lord of Man of the West, Stoney Burke, 12 O' Clock High and Hawaii Five-O). Once the dust settles and all parties relax, our spies confirm the information and speak of the bauxite mine on Crab Key Island owned exclusively by the reclusive Dr. Julius No.
Bond and Quarrel head to Crab Key under the cover of day for night shot and where Bond meets a dish in a white bikini the name of Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress of Sins of Casanova, 4 for Texas, What's New Pussycat, The 10th Victim and Clash of the Titans) when Quarrel is discovered by a tracked vehicle designed to look like a dragon shoots flame at him burning him alive while Bond and Ryder are captured No's men and he tells Bond the details of his mastermind plan to show the sheer scale of difficulty his mission was from the start. Also I think he is a poor host who likes to rub it in his enemies' noses. Bond must escape, stop No and rescue Honey from the island compound before he commits his radio wave device on yet another rocket.
Some interesting facts about the film now. Connery is said to have worn a toupee in all the Bond films due to premature balding. Novelist and Bond creator Ian Fleming wanted his cousin Christopher Lee to portray Dr. No due to his representation of Fu Manchu. Both Noel Coward and Max von Sydow turned down the roles as well and finally the role went to Joseph Wiseman who was voice dubbed.
Being terrified of spiders Connery attempted the tarantula scene with a sheet of glass and the sheets but it didn't look realistic so stuntman Bob Simmons laid in the bed for the re-shoot claiming it was the scariest stunt and didn't blame Connery for being creeped out.
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| Kinda says it all doesn't it? |
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